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Dramatically revised, this edition of Documents in World History gives professors a large variety of primary sources from all areas of the world. The book retains its global emphasis and includes more primary sources that balance the social and cultural history with standard selections, political coverage, and fuller coverage of the West.

Geographical Contents

ix

Topical Contents

xi

Preface

xiii

Introduction

1

(4)

Section One Early Civilizations

5

(30)

Mesopotamian Values: A Pessimistic View

7

(5)

The Gilgamesh Epic

Babylonian Law: How an Early State Regulated Its Subjects

12

(7)

Code of Hammurabi

Egypt: Religious Culture and the Afterlife

19

(6)

Book of the Dead

Visual Source

24

(1)

The Hebrew Bible

25

(10)

Isaiah; Psalms; Exodus

Section Two The Classical Period, 1000 B.C.E. to 500 C.E.

35

(138)

China

Key Chinese Values: Confucianism

36

(7)

The Analects

Legalism: An Alternative System

43

(6)

Han Feizi

Daoism

49

(5)

Daodejing

Women in Classical China: Ban Zhao

54

(7)

Lessons for Women

The Role of the State in the Economy

61

(7)

The Salt and Iron Debates

Visual Source

66

(2)

Classical India

``To Fight in a Righteous War''

68

(6)

Varna and Moral Duty in India

What the Buddha Taught: The Four Noble Truths

74

(7)

from the Buddha's First Sermon

Visual Source

79

(2)

Emperor Ashoka and ``Right Conduct''

81

(6)

The Doctrine of Dhamma

The State and The Economy in India: The Arthashastra

87

(6)

Kautilya: Treatise on Material Gain

Gender Relations in India: Four Types of Evidence

93

(8)

The Therigatha; Laws of Manu; The Mahabharata

Visual Source

99

(2)

Greece and Rome

The Greek Political Tradition

101

(4)

Plutarch on Sparta

Athenian Democracy and Culture

105

(5)

Pericles' Funeral Oration

Mediterranean Social and Family Structure

110

(4)

Aristotle, Politics and Economics

Principles of Roman Political Virtue: Plutarch

114

(4)

Moralia (Precepts of Statecraft)

The Roman Military and the Empire

118

(7)

Josephus

Women and the Law in Rome

125

(4)

Legal Codes

The Fall of Rome

129

(4)

Marcellinus

Global Contacts and World Religions

Whistling Arrows and Chinese Emperors

133

(7)

Sima Qian; silk statistics

Precious Commodities and Cultural Interchange

140

(12)

Rome, Arabia, India, and China

Visual Source

150

(2)

Monks and Monarchs: Buddhism Spreads to China, Korea, and Japan

152

(14)

Suetonius; Strabo; Pliny; Faxian

Visual Source

164

(2)

The Spread of Christianity

166

(7)

Justin, Anonymous Documents

Section Three The Post-Classical Period, 500-1500 C.E.: Expansions and Contacts

173

(171)

The Islamic Middle East

The Koran and the Family

175

(6)

Koran

The Islamic Religion

181

(5)

The Hadith

Religious and Political Organization in the Islamic Middle East

186

(7)

Al-Mawardi: Ordinance of Government

Visual Source

191

(2)

Arab Literature

193

(5)

The Thousand and One Nights

China and Japan

Peasant Life in Tang and Song China: Evidence from Poetry and Legal Documents